COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — The Ohio governor’s positive, then negative, tests for COVID-19 have provided fuel for skeptics of government pandemic mandates and critics of his often-aggressive polices. “I’m sure the internet is lighting up with ‘Well, you can’t believe any test,’ ” Mike DeWine said in a WCOL radio interview Friday, after a whirlwind […]

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — The stated goal of Israel’s new coalition government, born after three exhausting and inconclusive election campaigns, was to deal with the mammoth economic and health crises created by the advent of coronavirus. However the bad blood and mutual distrust formed during those election campaigns has persisted into the government and threatens to […]

JERUSALEM (VINNews) — A Jerusalem woman, the wife of a well renowned Torah scholar, contracted a debilitating virus twenty years ago. The virus attacked her body relentlessly and a number of her systems stopped functioning, leaving her bedridden and dysfunctional. She hardly ate and could not perform the most basic tasks. Recently the woman contracted […]

ROME (AP) — The confirmed number of coronavirus cases in the U.S. reached 5 million Sunday, by far the highest in the world, according to the tally kept by Johns Hopkins University. However, health officials believe that for every reported case, there are roughly 10 times as many people infected, given the limits on testing […]

BEIRUT (VINnews) — A Beirut woman was reaching the end of her labor just as explosions rocked the Lebanese capital last week. Her husband, who was trying to capture the special moments on film, caught a clip of the bedlam following the explosion instead. “Everything was shattered around,” Edmond Khnaisser, the woman’s husband, told CNN. […]

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Rabbi Adin Steinzaltz, the author of the renowned Steinzaltz Talmud and numerous other books on all facets of Jewish literature, passed away in Jerusalem Friday at the age of 83. Born in 1937 in Jerusalem to a secular family, Rabbi Steinzaltz was sent by his father, a communist Zionist who believed in […]

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Avrohom Linshe, a 25-year-old Belz Chassid from Jerusalem, published a Twitter clip recently in which he queried why he could not invite all of his family to his wedding despite the fact that demonstrations continue unabated outside the residence of Prime Minister Netanyahu despite the fact that many demonstrators are not wearing […]

NEW YORK (AP) — The Trump administration on Thursday rescinded its warnings to Americans against all international travel because of the coronavirus pandemic, saying conditions no longer warrant a blanket worldwide alert. The State Department lifted its level-four health advisory for the entire world in order to return to country-specific warnings. That move came shortly […]

NEW YORK (VINnews) — Former US First Lady Michelle Obama revealed on her podcast (dubbed The Michelle Obama podcast) that she is suffering from “low-grade depression” due to the pandemic, racial injustice and the “hypocrisy” of the Trump administration. Obama said that managing “emotional highs and lows” required “knowing yourself” and “the things that do […]

LONDON (AP) — The British government says it won’t be using 50 million face masks it bought during a scramble to secure protective equipment for medics during the coronavirus outbreak because of concerns they might not be safe. The admission sparked calls from opposition parties for an urgent inquiry into the way contracts for essential […]